Specters of God : an anatomy of the apophatic imagination / John D. Caputo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caputo, John D., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Negative theology.

Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, 1775-1854.

Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"In Specters of God, John D. Caputo returns to the original impulse of his work, the "mystical element" in things, here under the name of an "anxious apophatics," as distinct from an "edifying apophatics" anchored in unity with God. In dialogue with Schelling, a new turn for him and the lynchpin of this argument, Caputo addresses the nocturnal powers in being, the specters that haunt our being and bring us up short. The result is an erudite and insightful analysis-in his usual lively and masterful style-of several key "spectral" figures from medieval angelology and Eckhart's Gottheit, through Luther's deus absconditus and Schelling's "Satanology," to the spectralization and virtualization of the world in the "posthuman" age. Arguing that the name of God is not the master name of a super-being who is going to save us but a placeholder for sources deep in our apophatic imaginary, he asks, Has "God" become a (holy) ghost of the past? A passing spectral effect of the ancient harmonies of the spheres? Does radical thinking culminate in a cosmopoetics beyond theism and its theology, in a doxology to the transient glory of the world, whatever it was in the beginning, however eerie its end, world without why?"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Preface: The Apophatic Imagination

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Specters of God

1. Theopoetics: A Phenomenological Genesis

Part One: The Ontotheological Imaginary

2. From an Edifying to an Anxious Apophatics: Aquinas, Eckhart, and Luther

3. Hegel at the Foot of the Cross: Understanding the Death of God

4. Schelling and the Metaphysics of Evil

5. The Philosophical Meaning of Satan

6. Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing at All? Schelling and the End of Idealism

7. Schelling's Either/Or

8. Hegel and Schelling: The Critique and the Scarecrow

Part Two: The Hauntological Imaginary

9. Theism Transcended: The Post-Theism of Paul Tillich

10. Violence and the Unconditional: The Politics of the Apophatic

11. Haunting Tillich: Spectralizing the Ground of Being

12. The Devil Is In the Dissemination

Part Three: The Posthuman Imaginary

13. Angelology-Posthuman Style: Would You Rather Be a Cyborg, a Posthuman, or an Angel?

14. Ruinology: Why Will There Be Nothing at All Rather Than Something?

15. Axiology: A Mortal God, A World without Why

Conclusion: The Name (of) "God"

Notes

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Caputo, John D. Specters of God

ISBN:

9780253063021

0253063027

9780253063038

0253063035

OCLC:

1330195636